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^ FORE ST AND STREAM. 
[Aug. lo, 1901. 
Chicago Fly-Casting Club. 
The following are the records of the Chicago Fly-Cast- 
ing Club on the date of July 27, also for the re-entry 
events of July 13 and July 27. The next contest of the 
club will be held on Aug. 10. 
Accuracy and Delicacy 
Long Distance Delicacy. Bait Casting Bait. 
Fly. Feet. Per Cent. Per Cent. Per Cent. 
H. H. Ainsworth -.80 90 5-6 90 1-2 
I. D. Belasco... .....88 88 1-3 97 
I. H. Bellows 104 92 2-3 94 1-5 
L. I. Blackman .. go 9-10 
Re-entry, July 13: 
Bellows 110 95 1-6 89 3-10 97 1-6 
Bellows 94 2-3 
Belasco 92 84 88 1-2 94 2-3 
Belasco 90 1-6 
Blackman . . 91 si 1-6 
Blackman S9 9-10 72 2-3 
Church 85 . . 72 2-3 93 1-3 
Robinson . . S5 9-10 88 1-6 
Smith 97 92 1-6 97 5-6 95 5-6 
Smith , 94 1-6 . . . . 
Letterman 90 . . 76 1-10 89 
Salter . . 84 4-10 96 1-2 
Peet 106 95 1-2 
Peet 97 2-3 
H. G. Hascall 99 93 2-3 96 4-5 
N. C. Heston 80 90 2-3 93 4-5 !.' 
G. A. Hinterleitner . . 84 7-io 
E. R. Letterman .. 85 3-5 
F. N. Peet 103 95 91 9-10 
H. W. Perce 78 89 1-3 93 1-fO 
J F Robertson .. 65 3-10 
C. B. Robinson : .. .. 87 1-5 
A. C. .Smith 102 92 1-2 94 4-5 
F. S. Smith .. 76 8-10 
Re-entry, Tulv 27: 
Hascall 93 5-6 
Perce 88 1-2 .. .[ 
Winning scores: Long distance fly, I. H. Bellows, 
104 feet; accuracy and delicacy fly. F. N. Peet, 95 per 
cent. ; bait-casting. I. D. Bellows, 97 per cent. 
Got Some Rainbow. 
Mr. H. G. Hascall. one of the most enthusiastic anglers 
for the rainbow trout which we can furnish in Chicago, is 
recently back from a successful trip on the Pere Mar- 
quette River of Michigan. He had some splendid fish, one 
running over 3 pounds, and is as enthusiastic as ever over 
the magnificent sport furnished by this fish. The rainbow 
trout is certainly coming up very rapidly in the opinion 
of Chicago anglers. 
The St. Joe as a Bass Stream. 
Everybody in Chicago knows where the St. Joe River is. 
Its name in full is the St. Joseph River, and it flows into 
Lake Michigan well toward its foot, opposite Chicago. 
This is the stream which was formerlv ascended by the 
voyageurs who reached the Mississippi bv way of the 
Illmois and the Kankakee, the portage being near South 
Bend, Ind. The St. Joseph River is a clear and bright 
stream, and has always been a good bass water, although 
punished hard enough by local and visiting anglers. Flow- 
ing into Lake Michigan, it no doubt receives a great many 
of its fish from that lake, which, contrary to the under- 
standing of many anglers, still contains a good many 
black bass, although no one fishes for black bass in Lake 
Michigan. Mr. F. N. Peet and a friend returned last 
week from a bass trip on the St. Joe. and they report very 
fine sport indeed, killing a couple of dozen of nice bass 
each day they fished. They used spoon hook and pork rind 
for bait, and found the fish eager and gamy, taking many 
bass over 3 pounds, and some between 4 and 5 pounds". 
They describe the river itself as being lovely as an angling 
stream. They took boat at the station on the Michigan 
Central Railroad, which is located at the St. joe crossing 
and thence ran down stream in that most delightful of all 
angling fashions, drifting with the current. 
Death of Mr. Woodford. 
Mr. Philip R. Woodford, generally known among Chi- 
cago sportsmen as Phil. Woodford, died this week at his 
country home m Glencoe. Mr. Woodford for manv vears 
was director of the Wells-Nellegar Co., wholesale hard- 
ware dealers, and had always a great deal of fondness 
for the sporting goods department of the trade. He was a 
lover of the sport of upland and marsh, as well as an 
enthusiastic hunter of big game, and an angler of skill 
More than all this, he was a man of that big and broad 
nature which is so often found among sportsmen, a lov- 
able and unselfish soul, and withal one much to be missed 
by his many friends. 
Cannot Sue a State. 
Game Dealer E. W. Davis, of Detroit. Minn., during the 
former administration of Executive Agent Betner lot a 
rnSTf"<Jsr^T^^ the State of Minnesota for $10^). with 
costs of ?8i. The siiit was brought on account of seizures 
of game m the northern part of Minnesota, which Davis 
claimed, and apparently proved, were made illegally. Now 
Mr Davis wants his $100 and costs, and inasmuch as the 
^inT Mr' S °F f T ^""'^^ *° P^^^^"t executive 
agent, Mr. S^ F. Fullerton, to pay to him the $100 and 
costs. Mr. Fullerton has referred the matter to the At 
torney-General, who advises Mr. Davis that the State can- 
not be sued, and that his judgment is not worth the paper 
on which It IS written on the docket. Mr. Fullerton has 
also advised Mr. Davis in accordance with the foregoing 
decision. He has suggested to Mr. Davis that he levy oS 
the Attorney-General himself or the person of the Gov- 
ernor of the State or take such action as may seem to 
him desirable in the premises. It would seem ^hlt Sere 
c\"n"tTsuer'^" " '""^ ' ^'^'^ -'^^^^ 
New Minnesota Hatchery. 
Work was commenced this week on the Willow Brook 
State fish hatchery, near St. Paul, Minn., which, when 
completed, is to be one of the most complete hatcheries 
m the country. There is abundance of clear coW waJS 
ior this hatchery, and the location is perfect. It is thou^rht 
c? construction will be completed by November f he 
Mate .bish Commission has in the lower pond at present 
about 6,ooo_ steelhead and rainbow trout, and alxiut i koo 
black bass in the upper pond. The new ponds which will 
be constructed will hold much greater numbers of graded 
fish The grounds about the buildings will be parked and 
well cared .for, so that the entire hatchery grounds will 
torm a most beautiful and pleasanf phgt for visitors 
Will Take Sooners* Wagons. 
It was the State of Minnesota that inaugurated the 
somewhat drastic but very eft'ective protective measure 
of confiscating the dogs and guns of sooners caught in the 
act of hunting before the opening of the season. This 
year the Commission has decided upon yet more herodian 
measures. _ They have decided that if a party is caught 
shooting birds out of season, not only the dogs and guns 
will be taken from them, but also the wagons in which 
they are traveling. The same rule will be applied to any 
big-game shooters. Dogs, guns, boats and entire camp 
outfit, even provisions, and horses and wagons, will be 
seized by the warden. This will certainly make times 
mighty interesting for the sooners who go out to kill 
chickens in the egg shell or deer in the red coat. 
E. Hough. 
Hartford Building, Chicago, 111. 
The Sea Trout of Canada* 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
In Hallock's Sportsmen's Gazetteer is a description 
given by me of a forked-tail speckled trout, found in 
a little mountain lake called Coon Pond, in the eastern 
townships of Canada. I have recently caught this same 
variety of trout in Lake Manitou some sixty miles 
north of Montreal. These fish do not run large, seldom 
over a pound in weight. They are a slim, forked-tail 
trout, dark back, silver sides, white belly, with a fine but 
sharply defined jet black lateral line running from the 
tail to the gills. On each side of this line are several 
rows of light colored spots about the size of a small pea. 
while near the tail these spots are oblong in shape. There 
are also a few — very few — faint crimson spots on the fish, 
and numerous black spots about the size of a pinhead. 
These fish are called by the natives white trout, and 
are as gamy as possible for a fish of that size to be. It is 
a favorite trick when hooked to roll themselves up in the 
casting line and tear the Sy out of their mouth. Early 
in the season they were caught with bait, but after the 
middle of May they rose freely to the fly. The Montreal 
and white-miller are the favorites. 
The water of Lake Manitou is cold and derp. and also 
contains the ordinary 5". fontinalis. The fins of this 
white trout were when seen, about June i. tinged with 
red. 
The Coon Pond trout spawned after the ice had formed 
late in December, and I presume that the Manitou fish 
spawn at the same season. 
Kindly place this fish for us. Stanstead. 
After reading Stanstead's description of the forked-tail 
trout I naturally turned first to Hallock's Gazetteer for 
the description of the forked-tailed trout from Coon 
Pon-d. but do not find it in my copy, which is the fifth 
edition, printed in 1879. I will be g'lad if Stanstead will 
give me the page on which mention is made of the fish 
he calls the Coon Pond trout. I am strongly inclined to 
believe this trout from Lake Manitou is the "sea trout 
of Canada." about which I have written in this paper on 
several occasions. 
My first introduction to the "sea trout" came from a 
specimen sent to me by Mr. J. G. A. Creighton. from 
Ottawa, though the fish itself came from Lac de Marbre, 
in Ontario. This fish was pronounced by Prof. Garman 
a new species, and I was asked to name it. and did name 
it after Mr. Marston. Other specimens were sent to me 
and spoiled en route. I made two journeys in search of 
red trout in Canada, and the fish turned out to be male 
fontinalis in breeding colors, although in each instance 
it was promised that I would see a "red trout" with 
forked tail. Finally specimens came to me (also spoiled) 
from a new region, the Fourile Club waters. Then they 
were found in St. Bernard Club waters. Really, to be 
correct, I think they were discovered in these waters be- 
fore they were found in any other waters, except it be 
Lac de Marbre. Specimens were sent from there again 
and again, chiefly to be spoiled on the way: but last 
winter Mr. Simpson, who has a preserve adjoining the 
St. Bernard Club waters, brought six fine specimens to 
me. and I got them off within an hour of their receipt 
to Prof. Garman. and I wired to Denton to go to Cam- 
bridge and paint them. This he did, and I received 
colored drawings of the young and adult. 
Last fall Commissioner Titcomb, of Vermont, went 
to the Simpson preserve to hatch the fish artificially, and 
again this year to fish for them for the Pan-American 
Exposition. He was successful; the fish are now alive in 
the fish exhibit. Government Building. Buffalo. The 
fish that Denton painted will make an automobile shy 
and jump the fence should it meet them on the turn- 
pike, and one never need to ask why they are called 
red trout, once the picture is exhibited. It must be 
remem.bered that Denton's paintings are of breeding fish 
in November. The paintings will be reproduced in the 
Fifth Annual Report of the Forest, Fish and Game 
Commission of the State of New York. Prof. Garman 
will have a specific description of the fish, and Com- 
missioner Titcomb will have a popular article. Prof. 
Garman has not yet given out his final opinion of the 
red trout, for which he has compared them with the big 
specimens of the Sunapee saibling and the Aviril Pond 
saibling, the same species. He wished small immature 
Sunapee fish for comparison before finally describing 
them. Stanstead's description of spawning time, ap- 
pearance and habits fit the red trout in all particulars, ex- 
cept the deep red coloring, and that is peculiar only to 
spawning times, so that it is more than likely that his 
trout is the red or Marston trout. 
A. N. Chexey. 
Fyke Nets in Rockaway Pond* 
State Game Protector Overton, of Suffolk county. N. 
Y., has been called into Nassau county .to stop illegal fj^ke 
netting in the East Rockaway Pond. After spending 
several days and nights there, he svtcceeded in securing 
evidence sufficient to arrest Wm. Webster. John B. Smith 
and Peter Terrell. The two former pleaded guilty last 
Tuesday when arraigned before Justice Hawkins, of Lyn- 
brook. and the justice let them off upon the minimum fine 
of $10 each. Terrell has elected to stand, trial, ^n4 will 
probably have to pay tf^uch iqcr?. 
Two Weeks Among the Thousand 
Islands* — HI. 
{Continued fro7n page 67.) 
Ninth Day — Yates' Bay and Sorroondings. 
This water lies about a couple of miles above the 
back of Sir John's. We get up at Foley's, have an early 
breakfast and start lor Yates' Bay. The angler can either 
make straight for the bay, under sail, if the wind is favor- 
able, or he can row and troll along the Canadian main- 
land. It is good fishing for pickerel all the way. Yates' 
Bay is a mighty good piece of water. Every year a 
number of muscallonge are taken from it; they are gen- 
erally taken just off the smooth rock at the lower outer 
point. About a mile above there is another bay. Mus- 
callonge are often taken alongside the quarry; the water 
is deep close up to shore. Just across the channel is 
Milton's Island, at the foot of which is a small flat, a 
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great place for large pickerel of 12 or islbs. The choicest 
bit of muscallonge water in the River St. Lawrence now 
before the fisherman; but it requires locating, as it 
is the end of the reef running out from Sir John's. At 
the end there rs a cross reef forming the letter T. You 
can either strike the reef and follow it out to the end, 
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it by bringing the church spire on Sir John's Island in 
line with the point on the one hand and directly looking 
up the valley at the back of Yates' Island on the other. 
The cross reef lies in about i6ft. of water, and is the home 
of some mighty monsters — in fact, some of the largest 
fish ever taken out of the St. Lawrence have been taken 
from this reef, and we believe never a small one. It is 
also a great bass reef. On one occasion we were fish- 
ing it for bass and catching them just as fast as we could 
tire them out on a very light rod and tackle. All at once 
this ceased, there was not a bite, and directly the head 
of a muscallonge showed above water. We lifted anchor, 
put out our trolling rigs and in half an hour were playing 
a pair that scaled 34 and 35lbs. each. Half an hour after 
we got them into the boat and the place had quieted 
down again, the bass came on and remained feeding in 
first-class style until we had got all we wanted. Wilson's 
Bay sometimes jaelds some very fin? fish, both pickerel 
an^ muscallonge, 
